Pathways

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking and how writers are keeping up. Here are some routes we found in February on our modern life.

What if the problem of contemporary life is that we are read too much. The New Atlantis

What the controversies around The Woman King tell us about our abysmal knowledge of African History. London Review of Books

Is blue the most modern color? Goethe Girl

The urban ideal is a 19th-century city with 21st-century enhancements Financial Times

Is Empire all bad? Maybe not… Literary Review

What will it look like to have college graduates who know less about the past than most people in the past? New Yorker

In some places there is too much history and the past is too present. The Point

What is a Christian genealogy? Church Life Journal